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.. .. .. .. we will have you see the Students have been in rehearsal for months now, but the work began long before that. The actors and actresses could not practice their lines until they were written.

The students had a hand in that too, collecting hundreds of old Yupick stories, which they turned over to play right David Hunsecker. Hunsecker picked out about a dozen tales from the collection and wove them into one continuous flowing story. These things often tend to be relegated to folk tales or quaint yarns, interesting little stories that are told by some exotic group of indigenous people, all of these things that tend to be, to me, vaguely put down. They tend to put them in a certain kind of category. Very seldom are they listed when one talks about the great ancient literature. The Greek, the early Anglo-Saxon, ancient German Egyptian. Things that were written down, which is if the things that were written down are somehow

more important and more worthy of scholarship and attention. The director of the play, Jane Lynn, says the stories are not only worthy of attention, but are easily transformed into good theater. Lynn says the Yupicks have a natural flair for drama, one that comes from their long tradition of dancing and mask making. The actors themselves, the musicians, are taking the piece and it's sad and proud, away from me, owning the piece now. And that's like, I think for mothers, when they begin to see the child leave for me, when the pieces be becoming to be owned by the actors and by the musicians, and it's very hard to let go. I'm proud and sad about that at the same time. Every facet of the play has been given loving detail, like the masks, which were specially

made for the cast by an internationally known native sculptor. But what shines through this play the most is its Yupicks spirit. It is a celebration of traditions that are still alive and well. In battle, this is Rhonda McBride. We've got a lot of problems here in battle.

I think he's going to have to put the priorities in line to be effective. Those qualities that I think are most important, the people skills and knowledge of the area that goes along with getting along with the people here. Like to see a city manager that will work for the people. The best thing for them to do is to select somebody that they can depend on and get the members working together so they have operated a town or city without having to rush over to each other's office and argue about this and that, you see. I would like to see a very honest person in the management. Somebody who's been out in the bush before knows that he or she's getting into.

The ability to say yes and no, to be able to stand behind this decision, to be able to make a decision and stand behind as people as well as his own decision and sympathetic as well as courageous because I know a city being a city manager is really tough job and I think being caught in the middle is tough position to be in. First of all, let's start out with the ideal resume. Given all the controversy about alleged secret meetings, it probably wouldn't hurt for the new manager to have some background in the CIA or some organization like the National Security Council.

It'd be good to be independently wealthy so the new manager won't have to worry about job security or trouble the council with mundane things like contract buyouts. He should also have intimate knowledge of motion picture plots like Snow White and the Seven Dwarves or the Magnificent Seven as a guide to newly elected council members. As for age, he should be old enough to know better, but young enough not to care. Certain types of experience would be very useful in dealing with our community. Like work as a bouncer, mud wrestler, black belt, caroty instructor, or oil tanker captain. Now that kind of thing would be helpful. Of course, the council should get character references from reliable sources like mafia chieftains, exon board members, and captains of the Japanese fishing fleet. And at the very least, all references should be written by living persons. Now moving on to the ideal profile. Here is what the council should really be on a lookout for.

Very large ears for overhearing those alleged secret meetings. So they should check his teeth out, a very large grin will be necessary for all those times that you've got a grin and bear it. A large nose will be important too for sniffing out those dirty rotten deals and hidden agendas. Another physical trait that is especially important, the manager should be bowlegged to straddle the fence on important issues. Now height, that's optional. He should either be small enough to hide or big enough to fight. Also, he should wear a G.O.B. button to identify him clearly as a good old boy. And he should come equipped with deep pockets. That's handy for carrying a big stick, a flashlight for discovering night council meetings and last but not least, enough cash for a quick getaway. Oh, and one more important thing, the new manager should have large feet that won't fit

in his mouth. It's care-brokering for high-risk women.

In other words, you can offer a person this expanded Medicaid coverage, or I guess we'd like to call it a prenatal insurance plan. But giving this insurance plan doesn't necessarily mean that the person is going to seek the care they need. So case managers assure that that care is sought out and received. Our hope is that by reaching high-risk women with case managers, we will get these people in for early and continuous prenatal care. Are there a lot of high-risk women here on the Delta and in Bethel? Yeah, there are, statewide, there are. So when you're a case management person here in the Delta, tell us what you have to do now?

Well, my role will be to direct the women in ensuring that they are getting the prenatal care that's now available to them under this new project. I feel that I'll be acting as their advocate and dealing with other problems that might come up, not specifically, perhaps relating to their pregnancy, things such as other household type problems, maybe a young teenager not being in school, those are real important things that need to be addressed. Now that the funding has been upgraded, have you had a lot more people apply for this prenatal care? Mm-hmm. They're funding that the numbers are increasing and do expect them to continue to do so as people find out about this wonderful project. What we're going to do with this money is to purchase equipment or rent equipment, pay

part-time personnel and to take care of other costs that Exxon does not immediately authorize. We cannot wait for a long decision-making process in some of these matters. We just have to move and as we sort it out with Exxon, the bill also authorizes us to receive and expend another $10 million which we are going to get from Exxon. So as we expend this money, we will present the bills to Exxon. Exxon will then pay in a certain amount back into the fund which we will utilize again if necessary. This authorization goes until January 31st of next year at which time all but $2 million laps is back into the general fund.

The community care providers make life easier for the handicapped and elderly folks in town. Like village health aides, care providers make home visits, transport, and translate for patients at the hospital. Program coordinator, Mary Stewart says care providers also educate people of all ages. This job takes them to the schools, the pre-maternal home, and the senior center. We provide education and follow-up to patients with venereal disease through educational sessions and treatment, keeping contact with health aides through the mail regarding positive contacts.

Stewart says health professionals from the local hospital and Anchorage have commented on how valuable their service is to the community. We're not doing an excellent job with our home visits and transporting mainly elderly and handicapped people up to the hospital. Stewart says community care providers help out at health fairs and at specialty clinics at the hospital, aid off fluids for KY UK news. Thank you. .

of time, but for the past three weeks now, he has been here, assessing the damage on Prince William Sound for the state of Alaska. I've been around this island three times now, and I get to see an order. There's a few seals and sea lions, but I don't know. The water's at the beginning. On Eleanor Island, an entire cove has become a giant oil reservoir. It is Dirk's job to find wildlife here. It's not an easy job. This island is hard enough. There's like a desert. The water's gone. The water I've seen has been the dead one.

A few miles away, a positive sign. The sea lions, Dirk, has come to know, are still here, still alive. This is a bad year for us. There's a hard year. You've got to see it for yourself. You really get the feel of what's happened to the beaches. Dirk says he's not an ecologist. He says you don't have to be outraged by what happened. It makes me sad because I hadn't been able to see enough of this area before this happened. And it makes me angry because it was totally preventable. Dirk fast, never believed this could happen. He says he hopes to wake up in Tall Keatona and discover it was all a dream. But every day he wakes up here in the shadow of the Exxon Valdez.

And like many Alaskans, Dirk fast feels betrayed. They tell us it's not going to happen and it happens and how are you going to believe what really is going to be done. As far as cleanup goes, I just hope this isn't forgotten. I should not be forgotten. You see how I did that? The LKSB's language before Mark Wazersky is conducting tests this week. We're looking for any students who may show some special needs in these areas. We want to find the problems prior to their entry into school.

So we can deal with them through the parents or through preschool programs, the preschool teachers. Wazersky says most of the children score a normal range. He gives a dial R test which stands for diagnostic indicators of acquired learning. The dial R test covers three areas. Language, the concepts areas such as knowledge of colors and numbers and motor skills. Students who score lowly can be held from the future by teachers and parents. Well, hopefully by determining that they have the basic skills needed for their academic work. They don't have it. We can show up the areas that they're weakened. When the course work that they start attempting becomes more academically oriented, they'll be more equipped to handle it. And be able to fit in with the regular education program more effectively. By discovering who needs additional tutoring, slower learners can keep pace with classmates through their early schooling years. Well, we're certainly trying to make the positive or first introduction into something a formalized education setting. I would hope that it would at least help identify the full slower learners and help them at least keep pace when they get into kindergarten with their second third grade.

What do we do with it? What's the last one? Good job shall be the fastest. A clock. Wow, what does that show me? A clock. A clock. A clock. A clock. A clock. A clock. A clock. A clock. A clock. A clock. A clock. A clock. February was a cold, cold month, and like most people, KYUK used a lot of oil keeping its furnaces going full blast. But even the cold weather couldn't account for all the fuel leaving KYUK's tank. On February the 26th, we ran out of fuel, which was only like three or four days after the tank had been filled.

It's a little more fuel in the tank, and it was obviously that it was being used faster than we were using it. We checked under the buildings. There's no leaky pipes or anything like that. We finally came to conclusion that under a huge mound of snow out in front where the pipe comes out of the tank and then jogs back into the building to feed the fuel supply. That there was a connection there that probably the weight of the snow pressing down it caused a rupture in the pipe. And the oil that was escaping was not getting out. It was simply going straight down. When asked why Moore wasn't done to clean up the oil in February, Brigham answered. We looked all over the place. Couldn't find it. Even two or three weeks ago we were still looking fire department other people looked around. There was no fuel where you would think there would be fuel.

Currently a local contractor has been hired to clean up the leak. The process began yesterday making a holding kit, removing snows that could get all of it using sand and other absorbance to pick up what fuel had been. Estimates for the cost of cleanup run up to $30,000. Whether or not these efforts will be enough to prevent further environmental damage is something only the future can tell. Thomas McManus, K-Y-U-K News. There have been a few slight changes in the planning. This year the entropy has gone down from $500 to $300 if you enter early. It's still $600 if you enter late.

There's a lot more incentive to enter early. We've raised the purse from $50 to $60,000. We haven't yet decided how to divide up that purse, but we will be making that plan here sometime this summer. We still hope to have the $150, which was a popular but small race this year. Hopefully it will be popular and larger next year. There you are on your snow machine, clipping along at a happy speed and fairly sure the ice beneath the trail is good. Little do you know up ahead is some shell ice and overflow and soon you'll be wet.

It won't be long before you're cold and not much longer before your hypothermic. Will you know what to do? Well, Raymond Pete from YKHD's Accident and Injury Control Program would like to give you a few ideas now before it really happens to you. The first tip is knowing the symptoms of hypothermia. One of the first signs is, well, you'll have 98.60 abnormal body temperature. And one of the other signs would be you get chilly and you get goosebumps on your arms and wherever. And you get uncontrollable shivering. And then you stop shivering and get conscious and may result in death. Pete says surviving hypothermia has a lot to do with what you wear. You should have a hat on because you lose 60% of your body heat through your head and neck. If your hat and clothing are made of wool, that also increases your chances of survival. And layering your clothes is much better than wearing a big bulky coat.

You can take the layers on and off as you get hot and cold. Even if you've got all the right clothes, completely wet, they're not worth very much to you at all. Pete says, in this situation, you'll have to think and act quickly to stay alive. I would recommend, you know, to, you know, if you have extra clothing to, you know, get Warren's re-worm yourself as much as possible. And, you know, stop what you're doing and build a fire if you have not to get Warren. If you can't build a fire, try stuffing dry grass between your clothes and skin. The air layer formed will trap heat close to your body. In addition to proper clothing, Pete has a few other survival tips on his list. Travel slowly. The river ice is slick now and you can slide into open water if you break too suddenly. Travel in daylight whenever possible. Travel with someone. They can help you when you get into travel. And finally, travel sober.

Alcohol makes you feel warmer than you really are. It also takes away your common sense. That's the one thing that almost always will keep you alive. For KY UK, I'm Martha Scott. Come here. I think we're okay. Take it out. Take it out.

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Take it out. Take it out. Take it out. Last year's TWC's board had a reputation of being one of the workingest in town.

People competed for seats and nearly all its members had helped to start TWC. Now, those people have families have moved on to different issues and some have even left town. Former boards also had healthy budgets because domestic violence was more popular social issue then. Current TWC board president Dave Williams says members are doing their best but times have changed. Right now, if we go over a membership of the board, you'll find all but two people have been on more than one year. And that creates a difficulty in understanding we've got people who are just now beginning to understand what is really needed on a board. They'll have to have that figured out by May 25. The council wants a detailed program plan with goals and philosophies by that date. Otherwise it'll suspend TWC's funding. Williams is optimistic the staff and board can complete the challenge on time.

I could look at this whole thing in a negative manner and say that what we're going to do is fight Barbara Miklos and the commission. I'd like to look in an positive way and say that's probably the best thing we've had happened to us in a while. It provides the staff at TWC is realizing just how important they are. Lorraine Beaver is TWC's outreach coordinator. She says the staff is looking at the grant problems as a positive force. We have been able to get a lot of support from one another the past few days, the past couple of weeks. And I feel like it's helped us help this more as a team, work more as a team. And I think that's very positive for the people who work here as a staff.

Beavers worked at TWC on and off for four years. The agency saved women's lives and will continue to do so, she says, because the family violence problems have only worsened over the years. TWC helped 472 adults and 443 children last year. The agency just doesn't have the community support it used to. It has changed. In fact, it seems that we have to ask people to be board members now, whereas before there was a lot more interest back then. So we're always, we're still in need of volunteers and back then we had more people who were concerned. And there are two board openings for any concerned people, and Beavers says they are always looking for volunteers to answer the crisis line.

In Bethel, I'm Martha Scott. In charge, until yesterday, when Allen quit, along with he says 50 others who are unhappy with a cleanup operation, they've been stationed on board the USS Juno, which is serving as a floating hotel for some 300 cleanup workers. The workers consisted of at times scrubbing rocks one at a time here on the shore of Smith Island. Allen says the operation is disorganized and dangerous. We know they told us incurred over at the safety meeting not to get the stuff on us as best as can. I was eating it. Okay, eating it, swallowing it. Had it in my ears, my nose, my hands. Other workers complained they were sitting idly on ship with nothing to do except collect their money, $25 an hour with overtime on Saturday.

The tributes the complaints to start up problems and labels the complainer's malcontents, which they say you'd expect in every group of workers. The resignations won't put a dent in Exxon's workforce. Those who quit were replaced immediately by others anxiously waiting for work. There are, in fact, as many as 500 here in Valdez still looking and getting frustrated. I don't know the week, but don't happen, then I guess I will head back and try to pick up something in the town and try to bring it to there. This whole thing is frustrating. Yes, it is. As soon as you get to that's in gear is a better. No, I've known friends that are sitting here today, thinking about going back. There's a lot of waste of time through the heads abs. I've got to go back and see if they can pass something else because it's very nice to work isn't there. Thank you.

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Thank you. People are already using canoes on the Toulix Act River and down at the Cuskakweim resident Jack Kinigak says I shifted in two spots Thursday night and moved for a few minutes. The water has been rising fast in that village about a foot each day. Up in CalSCAG, the water rose 16 inches overnight and further up in Antioch, Alan Simian says the ice is ready to go. The ice is coming down the slews there and the main river is moving near the islands in front of Antioch. Simian says the ice moves steady up river into off the left for several minutes this afternoon and guesses the ice make throughout of Antioch later tonight.

In Red Devil, a village known for its floods, the ice level has already reached the banks on one side of town and Danny Hermans is expecting lots of water. It's definitely not an average year, it's probably, I'd say we're going to get wet one way or the other. If the ice jams up right now it's starting to move and it jams up with getting lots of water. There are still some open spots above and below sleepy and the river is here in front of Stony. Up in the graph, Mike Lames said the water levels have surrounded the airstrip and continued to rise in fall. The main river ice is still intact but shifting and moving quite often. So break up is still far away for Yukon River residents nearby. John Changsek in Russian mission told me this afternoon that there's lots of overflow in front of his village. People are still traveling to hunt there by snow machine and three-wheeler but they're getting very careful on the Yukon.

Residents of the Upper Cusp of Quim should be on constant watch for rapidly rising water in villages. Stay tuned to KYUK Radio over the weekend. We'll have weather service flood watches and warning updates for you. In Bethel, I'm Martha Scott. Thank you. Thank you.

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In the end it came down to Senators Mike Zomansky and John Binkley. Last night they voted with a majority of their colleagues not to pass on new taxes to the oil companies. But less than an hour before the final vote, Senator Mike Zomansky's office was swamped by calls and visits. From people angered by the Senator's initial vote. Just 15 minutes before the final vote Zomansky said nothing anyone could say would change his opposition to the issue. Even though the Exxon oil spill hit his district. Well, I've not been a big supporter of taxes and from my perspective it was just an up and down vote on taxes. But what a difference a few minutes makes when the final vote came Zomansky changed his mind, pushed the yes button and hiked oil industry taxes. And then it's before the vote.

The off legislation increases taxes paid by oil companies in the state. He met with both Binkley and Zomansky this morning. However, he says he made no threats and cut no deals to swing their votes. Well, this is Alaska and people have a habit of changing their minds overnight. The oil spill played a big part in pushing the Elf Bill through the Senate. Many Alaskans angry at Exxon wanted the oil industry to pay. However, the company's most affected by the new law will not be Exxon, but Arco and British Petroleum. I looked a little disorganized at various times during the session, but in the end I think that the public made out real well in this session.

I want to hit on a couple of high points. I think that the Elf probably doesn't bear too much comment. We talked a lot about that yesterday and the day before. The Amorata House Bill, which by the way, very little tension has been paid to, was put through the legislature with some considerable dispatch. Had we not gotten that legislation, the state would run the risk of losing litigation that could have brought the state well in excess of a billion dollars. Break-up in Bethel is imminent.

This is Rhonda McBride. Daytime highs in the upper 40s and lower 50s accelerated break-up and helped to prevent major flooding by melting some of the ice jams along the Casket Climb River. Things were a touch-and-go for a while in Queeflet, a village about 20 miles up river from Bethel. The principal of the school there, Bob Medinger, says the water was about a flood high throughout the village. Medinger says the water was rising by about an inch an hour, but by the afternoon the water level had stabilized. But down river near Akiak, an ice jam below the village threatens to send a backlash of flood waters like last year. Villagers are preparing for flooding like mushroom-like Williams, who says it's a little headache when he got a lot of dawn. Three to five boats and throwing the dogs in the boat and keeping there until the water goes down for about three to four, three to four days.

And the job becomes a little dirty when you have to clean up every morning. Williams says the dogs are amazingly well behaved, maybe it's because they realize they have no alternative. Bethel got a false alarm today on break-up, a tripod on the river fell 15 feet, but not enough to trip a wire rig to a special clock. And that clock stops, that's when break-up officially takes place, and with a leading edge of break-up just four miles outside of Bethel, that could happen any time. At Bethel, I'm Rhonda McBride. Thank you.

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